HIGHBRIDGEHIGHBRIDGE AUDIOAUDIO Fall 2013 HIGHBRIDGEHIGHBRIDGE AUDIOAUDIO FallFall 20132013 COMING THIS FALL FROM HIGHBRIDGE CONTENTS NOW AVAILABLE BRINGING MULLIGAN HOME Fall 2013 ARTFUL NEW RELEASES 2 JUNIUS AND ALBERT’s aDVENTURES in THE CONFEDERACY DIGITAL CLASSICS 46 KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES HER RECENT TITLES 50 THE PHILADELPHIA CHROMOSOME RENDEZVOUS INDEX 52 INSIDE THE BOX PERMANENT PRESENT TENSE IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT DETROIT JULY 27 THE LONGEST ROAD AUGUST AMAZING GRACIE THE ESPERANZA FIRE THE CHAOS IMPERATIVE THE INTROVERT ADVANTAGE THE ROAD FROM GAP CREEK NPR AMERICAN CHRONICLES: EXPLORING SPACE THE TIME FETCH 19 IF YOU COULD BE MINE SEPTEMBER SOMEBODY UP THERE HATES YOU EVIL EYE TIM RUSSELL 31 THE EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING THE LUDWIG CONSPIRACY LATINO AMERICANS OCTOBER ANTON AND CECIL: CATS AT SEA 21 THE STAR OF ISTANBUL NPR MORE TINSEL TALES SURVIVAL LESSONS GUESTS ON EARTH TIES THAT BIND NOVEMBER YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES PURGATORY 37 THE TELL JANUARY RED 1-2-3 24 REAL HAPPINESS AT WORK FEBRUARY LION PLAYS ROUGH © 2013 HighBridge Company Cover photograph © Getty Images. AVAILABLE NOW Bringing Mulligan Home THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GOOD WAR Dale Maharidge Read by Pete Larkin A son’s quest to find the members of his father’s Marine company leads to a deeper understanding of the devastating Pacific battles of WWII, and the haunted men who came home. Sgt. Steve Maharidge, like many of his generation, hardly Simultaneous release with ever talked about the war. The only sign he’d served in it PublicAffairs hardcover 9781586489991 was a single black-and-white photograph of himself and n Of appeal to veterans, history buffs, another soldier tacked to the wall of his basement, where and those interested in the effects of he would grind steel. combat trauma After Maharidge’s death, his son Dale began a twelve- n Over 3 million viewers tuned in for year quest to understand his father’s preoccupation with the 2010 Spielberg/Hanks HBO the photo. What had happened during the battle for series The Pacific Okinawa, and why had his father remained silent about n Releases in advance of Memorial Day his experiences and the man in the picture, Herman n Author tour Mulligan? In his search for answers, Maharidge sought out the survivors of Love Company, many of whom had never before spoken so openly and emotionally about the horrors they saw and experienced on Okinawa. In Bringing Mulligan Home, Maharidge delivers an affecting narrative of war and its damaging aftermath, of fathers and sons, with lessons for the children whose parents are returning from war today. DALE MAHARIDGE teaches at the Columbia Journalism School. His second book, And Their Children After Them, won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1990. 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HBO feature film releasing in 2013 Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus many moments of antic comedy. They must endure the Confederacy’s most notorious prison; rely on forged passes and the secret signals of a covert pro-Union organization in North Carolina; trust a legendary guerilla leader; be hidden by slaves during the day in plantation slave quarters; and ultimately depend on a mysterious, anonymous woman on a white horse to guide them to safety. They traveled for 340 miles, most of it on foot, much of it through snow, in twenty-six days. This is a marvelous, surreal voyage through the cold mountains, dark prisons, and mysterious bands of misfits Retailers—order 2 living in the shadows of the Civil War. for a special discount.F13 Use code HB PETER CARLSON is the author of K Blows Top, which was optioned into a feature film to be released in 2013 by HBO. 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